The Lucky Skates

Barbie and Friends Book Club

by Jacqueline A. Ball, Patricia Jensen, Mattel

Hardcover 1998 53p. 8.75x6.25x0.25 SUPERSKATE CHAMPIONSHIP; BARBIE TEAM'S CHANCES OF WINNING LOOK GREAT.

Genres: Childrens, Juvenile

50 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1998

Reviews

[Caedyn Skinner]

Logging this bc the ending was very surprising and not at all how I expected the missing skates debacle to get figured out.

[Abigail Weh]

This was another childhood favorite of mine. Re-reading as an adult was fun and nostalgic. There are lots of good learning moments for kids in it, and it’s a book I’m happy to have for when I have kids of my own.

[Kelly Chester]

Super cute book

[Karly]

A little something to take the edge off

[Bulk Reviews]

i swear i am going to become an absolute expert on children’s mysteries.

i didn’t know what to expect from a barbie mystery since the target age is younger than i usually read. rather than a bunch of clues all pointing to one specific culprit, the style was that each suspect had a possible motivation, and in the end you could basically pick one out of a hat. idk how to describe it better, but it was similar to the nancy drew pc games.

this one actually wasn’t bad at all, and it had a lot of girl drama with barbie acting as the exasperated therapist, which i liked.

i do have to complain about one thing though. while the doll dioramas were good, they were inconsistent about which girl was which. this book was about a team of five female skaters, and i could not figure out who was who because the text and the pictures would have conflicting information. in a mystery where you’re trying to figure out whodunnit, this was especially inconvenient.

[Belén]

Aunque es una historia infantil y para niños, yo he disfrutado mucho leyéndola, puede que tenga que ver que me encanta esta muñeca o porque es como esa historia que de pequeña no tuve la oportunidad de leer.

Tiene siete capítulos y la pluma de la autora es amena y lo explica todo con lujo de detalles, cosa que no se hace pesado, sino que se hace divertida y te dan ganas de investigar con Barbie, así que, te adentra en la historia sin más y no puedes parar de leer.

Todas las chicas me han caído genial, aunque al principio Julia e Ingrid no me cuadraban mucho, pero a medida que avanza la trama, te vas dando cuenta que es una historia de amistad, superación incluso y que te enseña una gran moraleja: “Uno no es bueno por el material que use, sino, por la habilidad que tenga”, o al menos es la moraleja que me ha dejado a mí.

Cabe destacar también las fotos tan bonitas y detalladas que hay entre los capítulos, que me han parecido un currazo y una pasada total.

[Andressa Da Silva]

Cute but generic Barbie book

[Candy]

Tiene una trama entretenida y sencilla de comprender.

[Sarah Faron]

Painting Julia to be crazy jealous just to have Meg be the thief? Rude. Everyone needed to leave Allie alone. Especially Barbie.

[Dolly]

Cheesy, and not very engaging for young children. The pictures of posed Barbie dolls aren't even that entertaining. Overall, it has an okay message, but I wasn't impressed and neither were our girls.

[Theresa]

Barbie: The Lucky Skates
Ball, Jacqueline A.
a children book based on barbie toys